President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political...
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US Intel Community Hypes North Korean Nuke Threat, Concedes Pyongyang Will Not Use Weapons For Offensive Purposes
by Connor Freeman | Jun 26, 2023 | News
A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) written in January which discusses Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons policy for the remainder of this decade was declassified by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines earlier this month. The document looks at a variety of...
My 40 Year War on Reefer Madness
by Jim Bovard | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
Forty years ago this week, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner published my first attack on the federal drug war. The previous year, the Reagan administration unleashed its "Just Say No" program, vilifying anyone who smoked a joint, sniffed the wrong powder, or used...
Daniel Ellsberg’s Courageous Work Remains Unfinished
by Jim Bovard | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What if truth doesn’t win out until a million corpses too late? Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our era, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He risked life in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. Ellsberg...
January 6th Journalist Headed to Trial in Landmark Press Freedom Case
by Ken Silva | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
“Journalism is not a crime,” President Joe Biden declared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner just over a month ago. Meanwhile, Biden’s DOJ is prosecuting North Carolina-based independent reporter Stephen Horn, who entered Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Horn, by...
News Roundup 6/19/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 19, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley predicted Thursday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will be long and “very violent” following a meeting of military officials in Brussels. AWC A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a piece of...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Jun 17, 2023 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
Zelensky Slams Trump for Saying He Would End Ukraine War
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2023 | News
In an interview with NBC News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attacked former President Donald Trump’s pledge to end the war. He argued that if Kiev does not defeat Moscow, Russia will attack a NATO member state and force the US into a direct conflict.
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Carrier Follies on Parade (Again)
Fact is more hilarious than fiction now. USS Repulse and USS Prince of Wales would be more appropriate names for these missile sponges and future fish apartments. The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse by Japanese naval aviation was a naval engagement in World War...
Production Is Spiritual, Not Material
"Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given elements through arrangement and combination. The producer is not a creator. Man is creative only in thinking and in the realm of...
NGIA, Please
Employees will start moving into new $1.7B NGA HQ in St. Louis, MO in Fall 2025. In other news, it’s a good thing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wasn’t called the National Intelligence-Geospatial Agency... Please. The budget is classified of course but...
Back to Basics: A Rare Instance of US Naval Sobriety
Navigation is fundamental. Every ship in the USN should do this yearly. Advanced, hand-computed celestial navigation is a full-time job. It required both of us to be on (or near) the bridge for approximately 18 hours a day, especially during the morning and evening...
Gaza’s Future and Trump’s Bold Rhetoric: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com joins us for an eye-opening exploration of Middle Eastern politics. Former President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning about Gaza, claiming "all hell will break loose" if hostages aren't released by his next tenure. Is this another...
RIP USMC: The Corps is Toast
Force Design 2030 murdered the USMC. The Marines are struggling to keep more than one Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) forward deployed at a time. Sometimes, two are forward deployed but only for limited periods. Each MEU has about two weeks of sustainment. Unless...
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